Quotes About Exploration

A successful student is one whose primary goal is to expand their knowledge and their ways of thinking and investigating the world. They do not see grades as an end in themselves but as means to continue to grow.

When you're lying on your deathbed, one of the cool things to say is, 'I really explored myself.' T

Of course, life does not always follow our scripts. We get feedback from what really happens; this sharpens our reality principle so that we can think things through more intelligently the next time. The point is, we live out some options and we imagine our way through others. In either case, we learn what we want, what we believe in, what our values are. We will never know who we are and what we want if we just stay in our old ruts. This is why we must wander a bit to grow.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don't move until you've reached page fifty. Until you've buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

Han and Luke exchange, 'What next?' looks.

Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture,

The power of the human mind is a wondrous thing. Even now, we can only begin to imagine what it is capable of.

Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out.

I believe in books.

Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...

Heimat ist das, von wo wir ausziehen, wo wir beginnen...Es ist nicht das, wo wir bleiben, es ist nicht das, was uns unverändert begleitet. Die Wanderschaft, auf die wir uns begeben, auf der wir unserem Begehren nachgehen, diese Unruhe, die uns angetrieben hat, das Gefühl des Exils ist die Quelle für das Suchen nach einem anderen Zuhause, nach einer anderen Heimat.

The salt water tingled my feet and made them feel so good all the rest of the day, and just to think, the same water that bathes the shores of China and Japan came clear across the ocean and bathed my feet.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

She was always changing her mind, imagining all the roads not taken. She was spongy, and sponges can't make big life decisions.

You want to go places you can't go.

I love reading books because... 1. books teach you how to live. 2. books teach you how to love. 3. books encourage you and give you hope. 4, books lift you up when you are down. 5. books take you to places and times you could never otherwise visit

The cliffs and mountains of this region were honeycombed with caves

The way to get free of pain is to dive down into it. To acknowledge it.

To the ends of the earth, madam, to say nothing of back and forth in this garden.

but travel, to new places where she could swim and write, while escaping the ensnaring kitchen of life, was becoming the one prospect that unfailingly brought the promise of pleasure.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.